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Caxton's book: a collection of essays, poems, tales and sketches
Title
Caxton's book: a collection of essays, poems, tales and sketches / by the late W.H. Rhodes ; edited by Daniel O'Connell.
Publication
San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1876.
Manufacture
San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft and Company, Printers and Binders
Physical Description
300 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 1: Purplish blue cloth binding. From the library of Edwin E. Grabhorn.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 2: Royal blue cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 3: Brownish cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 4: Reddish brown cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 5: Purplish cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 6: Dark green cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 7: Green cloth binding. Presentation inscription to J. Ghirardelli from Daniel O'Connell and O'Connell's ms. notes.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 8: Yellowish green cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 9: Olive green cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copy 10: Brownish black cloth binding.
BEIN Zc96 C2 R346 C2 copies 1-10: From the library of John Swingle.
BEIN Tanselle Z22 0038: Purple cloth binding. Copyright deposit copy. Stamps: Library of Congress Surplus Duplicate ; Library of Congress, Copyright 1876, No. 12410G2.
Notes
"In memoriam" signed W.H.L.B., probably William H. L. Barnes.
Many of the poems have been reprinted from various periodicals and were orignally written for meetings of the Bohemian Club.
Other formats
Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.
Online version: Rhodes, W.H. (William Henry), 1822-1876. Caxton's book. San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1876
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Preface
In memoriam
The case of Summerfield
The merchant's exchange
The deserted schoolhouse
For an album
Phases in the life of John Pollexfen
The love knot
The Aztec princess
The mother's epistle
Legends of Lake Bigler
Rosenthal's Elaine
The telescopic eye
The emerald isle
The earth's hot center
Wildey's dream
Whitherward
Our wedding day
The old year and the new
A pair of myths
The last of his race
The two Georges
Masonry
Pollock's euthanasia
Science, literature and art during the first half of the nineteenth century
The enrobing of liberty
A cake of soap
The Summerfield case
The avitor
Lost and found.
References
Baird & Greenwood. California fiction, 2094
Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 4525.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Fiction.
Poetry.
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